Matthey Bishop--Malvern, Pa.

Producer in Chester county in Pennsylvania, United States with commodities Gold, Iridium, Osmium, Palladium, Platinum, Rhodium, Ruthenium, Silver
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Ownership information
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10274687
MAS/MILS ID 0420299010
Record type Site
Current site name Matthey Bishop--Malvern, Pa.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -75.51132, 40.03831 (WGS84)
Elevation 152

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Chester(county)

Pennsylvania(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Malvern(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Reading(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Newark(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Delaware(hydrologic unit)

Lower Delaware(hydrologic accounting unit)

Delaware-Mid Atlantic Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

Mid Atlantic(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Pennsylvania Chester

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Secondary
Iridium Critical Primary
Osmium Primary
Palladium Critical Primary
Platinum Critical Primary
Rhodium Critical Primary
Ruthenium Critical Primary
Silver Secondary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -75.51132, 40.03831

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Matthey Bishop Inc.
    Year 1978

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    1978 E/M J DIRECTORY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 15-NOV-1983 Eastern Field Operations Center (EFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.